To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never... The Poetical Works of Lord Byron: With Lifeby George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1857 - 576 pagesSnippet view - About this book
| mrs. Ross - 1821 - 688 pages
...heart, surrounded by the scenery or affected with the feelings, he describes : — "To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's...with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd. " But midst the crowd, the hum, theshock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 478 pages
...muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not mart's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er, or rarely...Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unrolled. XXVI. But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess,... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1821 - 976 pages
...! of which the weary breast Would still, albeit, in vain, the heavy heart direst. To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's...hath ne'er, or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountian all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1822 - 498 pages
...of which the weary breast Would still, albeit in vain, the heavy heart divest. XXV. To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's...with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd. XXVI. But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And... | |
| 1820 - 558 pages
...we think, and great bitterness of soul, in the following stanzas. [XXV. XXVI.] • To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's...dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er, or rarely been ; [&c.] Childe Harold cares little for scenes of battle ; and passes Actiuuo and Lepanto with indifl'erence.... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Bookbinding - 1823 - 334 pages
...pang ! of which the weary breast Would still, albeit in vain, the heavy heart divest To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's...with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd. XXV. < But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And... | |
| A. Yosy - 1823 - 304 pages
...she went. " To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To. stowly trace the forest's shady sCehd, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And...with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd." This she felt. But a heart, trained as Emily's in the school of redemption, would not permit her to... | |
| A. Yosy - 1823 - 574 pages
...the wave that washed her steps—No: God waS present with her wherever she went. " To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's...needs a fold: Alone o'er steeps, and foaming falls, to tein— This is not solitude : 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores... | |
| Charles Bucke - Nature - 1823 - 468 pages
...justly observes, to him is a prison, and solitude a paradise. To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood anil fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where...fold; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean; But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Alfred Howard - 1824 - 226 pages
...for their landing better, They ran the boat for shore, and overset her. SOLITUDE. To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's...to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold [unroll'd. Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock... | |
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